Amanda Serrano to retire after defending featherweight titles in Puerto Rico on 9 January

Final fight in San Juan

Puerto Rican boxer Amanda Serrano is retiring after one final contest, a title fight against Australia's Skye Falzon in which her WBO and WBA featherweight crowns are at stake. Her promoter, Most Valuable Promotions, has branded the event "The Last Walk" and scheduled it for 9 January at the Coliseo de Puerto Rico in San Juan. Serrano, a seven-division champion, has a record of 50 wins, four defeats and one draw, along with 32 knockouts. Falzon is 12-2 with seven knockouts. According to the BBC, Serrano is the only Puerto Rican boxer, male or female, to have become an undisputed world champion.

A rivalry and a long career

Serrano turned professional in 2009, and The Independent frames the coming bout as the close of a 17-year career. In 2021 she became the first fighter to sign with Most Valuable Promotions, the company founded by Jake Paul and Nakisa Bidarian. Her defining rivalry was with Ireland's Katie Taylor, and the two became the first women to headline a boxing event at Madison Square Garden in 2022. Taylor won all three of their meetings, with the trilogy completed in 2025 by majority decision, while their 2024 rematch on Netflix was widely watched, according to the BBC. In 2023 Serrano took part in a unified women's world title bout over 12 three-minute rounds, and later vacated her WBC title voluntarily rather than give up her stance on equal rules.

Chasing the knockout record

Serrano and the American Christy Martin jointly hold the all-time women's knockout record, according to the Irish Independent. Serrano's previous outing was a majority decision win over Argentina's Lucrecia Manzur, which gave her a 50th professional victory. That bout was the first world title fight broadcast live on TikTok, generating 3.4m views, the BBC reports. The BBC also reports that Serrano fell short of the knockout she needed to pass Martin's mark of 32, which leaves one final opportunity in January.

Amanda Serrano32

Skye Falzon7

Amanda Serrano

32 knockouts

Skye Falzon

7 knockouts

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Falzon and the farewell

Falzon, who has won 12 of her 14 professional fights, seven of them by knockout, will be Serrano's final opponent. The Irish Independent and The Independent give Falzon's age as 38, while the BBC gives 37, and the sources do not resolve the difference. The bout will run 12 three-minute rounds. In comments carried by the BBC, Serrano described what the setting means to her.

“To close my career at home in Puerto Rico, in front of the people who have supported me from the beginning, means everything.”

She has also said there is more work to do on respect, equal opportunities and fair pay, and that she will keep fighting for the next generation after she hangs up her gloves.